Plymouth Theatre (Boston)


The Plymouth Theatre of Boston, Massachusetts, was located on Stuart Street in today's Boston Theater District. Architect Clarence Blackall designed the building for Liebler & Co. Performers included Henry Jewett, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, 8-year-old Sammy Davis, Jr., and Bette Davis. In October 1911, the touring Abbey Theatre presented Synge's Playboy of the Western World at the Plymouth; in the audience were W. B. Yeats, Isabella Stewart Gardner and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.
"The Shubert Organization of New York bought the Plymouth in 1927 and used it largely for tryouts of plays headed for New York or going on tour, and for some long run performances." In 1957 the building became the Gary Theater.

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Performances

1910s

Reflected Glory - 1936 w Tallulah Bankhead
Blow Ye Winds - 1936 w Henry Fonda with Doris Dalton
The Masque of Kings - 1936 w Henry Hill, Dudley Digges and Margo Pauline Frederick
Susan and God - 1939 w Gertrude Lawrence and Paul McGrath
Boys and Girls Together - 1940 w Ed Wynn and The De Marcos